Stephen Brown wrote
> > Are you mounting procfs with the linux option enabled? I've the
> > following line in my /etc/fstab file:
> > 
> > /proc /proc procfs rw,-olinux
> > 
> > Remember: vmware is a linux binary package that relies on certain Linux
> > functionlities and hence this needs to be taken into consideration
> > when installing it on NetBSD.
> 
> Cool, that solved that problem, and brought me to the next... cannot power
> on as it does not find the vmmon module loaded...  I am currently running
> a GENERIC kernel, due to having just installed the system, though will be
> compiling -release very soon.  Have checked the Generic kernel, and
> (surprise surprise) no show for vmmon... any ideas?

Don't know if the GENERIC kernel has COMPAT_LINUX enabled.
You need to compile Linux compatibility into your kernel

options         COMPAT_LINUX    # binary compatibility with Linux

cheerio Berndt
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